Nightlife

Blend / Wetlands

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157 East Rosemary St (Downtown)
Chapel Hill, NC 27514

phone (919) 338-2746

Private club; membership required. An artist-friendly space dedicated to bringing independent music to Chapel Hill. Dance party after most shows. All ABC permits.

Blue Bayou Club

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106 South Churton St (Downtown)
Hillsborough, NC 27278

phone (919) 732-2555

Open Mon-Wed, 5pm-midn; Thu, 5pm-1am; Fri-Sat, 5pm-2am; closed Sun.

Serves Boar’s Head hot dogs and snacls, plus more than 60 labeled beers and wine. All ABC permits. Entertainment: Mon, new faces and game night; Tue, open mic and blues jam; Wed, Texas hold ‘em; Thu, darts and live music; Fri-Sat, live music. Must be 21 and over. Private; membership fee, $5.

Blue Horn Lounge

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125 East Franklin St (Downtown)
Chapel Hill, NC 27514

phone (919) 929-1511

Open daily, 4pm-2am.

Small, private bar seats 44, but in an intimate big-city setting, and offers three flat-screen TVs and live music typically two nights a week. Annual membership dues, $1. All ABC permits.

Bub O’Malley’s

157 East Rosemary St (Downtown)
Chapel Hill, NC 27514

phone (919) 942-6903

Open Mon.-Sat., noon-2am; Sun., 2pm--2am.

Sports bar offers 30 beers on tap, 100 in the bottle, plus cider, soda and snack foods. Video games, jukebox and other diversions. ABC-b&w. Entertainment:. DJ, karaoke and live music offered on occasion. No cover charge.

Caffé Driade

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1215-A East Franklin St
Chapel Hill, NC 27514

phone (919) 942-2333

Open Mon-Thu, 7am-11pm; Fri-Sat, 7am-midn; Sun, 7:30am-11pm.

Since 1995, this espresso bar, teahouse and wine bar has been serving coffee roasted daily by the Carrboro Coffee Company, plus whole-leaf tea, pastries and selected beer and wine (plus cigars). Featured on The Food Network (Rachael Ray’s ‘$40 a Day’). Beautiful woods, gardens and patios let patrons relax, unwind, concentrate or ponder. Outdoor dining. Displays art for sale, changed monthly. Beer and wine only. Free parking. Entertainment: Live music (May-Oct), Wed, Fri-Sat. Coffee, Tea & Breakfast

Carolina Sky Bar & White Lounge

136 East Rosemary St (Downtown)
Chapel Hill, NC 27514

phone (919) 929-7575

Open daily, 10:30pm-2am.

New sports bar on the lower level of the Bank of America Center features two 90-inch video projectors, two 50-inch flat-screen TVs and nine other TVs, all with state-of-the-art sound and light system, plus DJ music on non-game nights hosted by WQOK radio personality Brian Dawson, who owns the club. 

Cat’s Cradle

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300 East Main St (Downtown)
Carrboro, NC 27510

phone (919) 967-9053

Call for show days and times.

World-famous live-music venue bringing the finest musical acts to Chapel Hill and Carrboro since 1969. Offers a broad range of top musical entertainment, mostly rock & roll. Serves beer, wine, soda and water. Tickets for most shows available through etix.com.

Cave (The)

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452-1/2 West Franklin St (Downtown)
Chapel Hill, NC 27516

phone (919) 968-9308

Open 7 days a week, 2:30pm-2:30am.

Since 1968 (the oldest bar in town). Members-only club. Features original music 7 nights a week. Two shows, Tue-Sat: early, 7:30-9:30pm, and late, 10pm, mainly rock & roll, bluegrass, country and folk. Plus pool, pinball and video games. Live Webstream. Cover charge, $5 (weekends); pass the hat, most other nights. All ABC permits.

Crossroads 54 Bar

2823 NC Highway 54 West
Chapel Hill, NC 27516

phone (919) 969-7799

Open Mon-Thu, 2pm-midn; Fri-Sat, 2pm-2am; Sun, noon-10pm.

Light snack foods during the week. Chicken wings on Thu. Race cook-outs on Sun. Pool, darts and horseshoes. No cover charge.

Dead Mule Club (The)

303 West Franklin St (Downtown)
Chapel Hill, NC 27516

phone (919) 969-7659

Open daily, 4pm-2am for light dinner fare.

Private club. First-year membership, $25; renewal per year, $5.